Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] them [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only message some of them had had time to give their children as the social workers took them to waiting cars was ‘ have faith , be strong , we 'll do what we can ’ . |
| 2 | This instinctive anti-Americanism was revealed most clearly during the Gulf War , in which the pretence that the Basic Law prevented them from sending troops was a mere figleaf for their initial failure to offer any political support to the American-led campaign ( Genscher remained silent for a week after the fighting began , although he and Kohl tried to make amends later ) and for their inexcusable prevarication about supporting Turkey in the event of an attack by Iraq . |
| 3 | It was always cold on Monaghan Day , the traditional day poor farmers sold their winter stock and the rich farmers bought them for fattening . |
| 4 | The Conservatives ' desperation to devise a counter-programme for the land , and the disagreements it provoked , demonstrate the degree of confusion which still existed in the Conservative ranks and the immense problems they still faced before the ‘ rampant omnibus ’ of the Great War rescued them by running down their opponents . |
| 5 | These children had completed their preparatory year and were of normal intelligence but severe physical problems prohibited them from entering regular school . |
| 6 | And as for women in their 30s and 40s , Time claims they feel the feminist movement betrayed them by failing to warn them about the sacrifices women had to make in exchange for equality and by pursuing the wrong goals — pushing more strongly for the equal rights amendment than for child care or flexible working hours . |
| 7 | The high prices of industrial consumer goods deterred the peasants from buying , and the low prices offered by the state for agricultural produce deterred them from selling or even sowing . |